When I heard that, for the third year in a row, Yelp had received a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and earned the designation as a 2017 Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality, I couldn’t help but smile with pride, knowing that this award is well-deserved. It also got me thinking,… Read more

When I heard that, for the third year in a row, Yelp had received a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and earned the designation as a 2017 Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality, I couldn’t help but smile with pride, knowing that this award is well-deserved. It also got me thinking,… Read more

On Friday, December 17, Yelp’s LGBT employee alliance and Out & Equal invited 25 leaders of various LGBT employee resource groups for a breakfast meeting. We wanted to get to know each other and talk about the opportunities and challenges we all face in our groups. What did we talk about? The wider purpose of… Read more

At Yelp, our employee groups offer the opportunity to connect with people from all across the organization with a variety of interests and experiences. Our VetConnect group provides a place for veterans and veterans’ family members to get to know each other and share their perspectives and experiences. In honor of Veterans Day, we spoke… Read more

Yelp Community Ambassador Andrew H knows the ins and outs of Anchorage. This man with the plan hosts Yelp events around town, pens the Local Yelp newsletter, and stokes the fire for connecting his community to great local businesses. When he’s not event planning or connecting, he’s traipsing around Westchester Lagoon and Spenard. When he’s not in town… Read more

Honestly, what’s not to like about Halloween? There’s candy, costumes, and creepy decorations galore — and at Yelp, we like all those things! In fact, we go all out when it comes to the most frightfully fun holiday of the year at Yelp’s Annual Halloween Hullabaloo! This year, 105 kids descended on the Phoenix office… Read more

We created the Yelp Intern Program back in 2008 when we hired our first engineering intern. We now host roughly 150 interns each year and take a lot of pride in the program, which consists of three 3-month terms. When a new intern class starts, they have a significant impact on our engineering team of… Read more

Jordan McCrady is an Account Executive in Yelp’s Phoenix office. We talked to Jordan to hear more about his work life at Yelp. A Little Background I moved to Phoenix from Kansas City in October 2015. Before I started working at Yelp, I was an avid Yelp user. I used the app to find someone… Read more

WAY (Women at Yelp) is a women’s employee resource group centered around educating employees on female-focused issues. With chapters in six Yelp offices around the world — and Erica Galos Alioto, SVP of Local Sales, as the executive sponsor — WAY’s mission is to connect its members with other smart, inspiring women and spark conversation… Read more

Sarah M is Yelp’s Community Director in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Back in 2013, she launched Tulsa Yelp, and since then the 918 has grown into a beautiful and thriving community! She is all about babies (especially her own), playing and enjoying live music, backyard bonfires, imbibing well and dancing with her bodacious husband. We caught up with her… Read more

Benoit Vermont joined the Hamburg team in 2015 as an Android engineer. Since then, he has been working on our Yelp for Business Owners app developing several new features. Curious and full of energy, he has helped the team step out of its comfort zone many times. A fan of languages, he is one of… Read more